![]() ![]() What Ehrhart and the other men and women embedded in the USFL office claimed not to realize was that the Herschel-Walker-to-the-league mechanisms had been in place for weeks. ![]() “There’s no getting around that.”īut Herschel Walker was not coming to the USFL. “Ridiculously gifted,” said Jim Mora, the Stars coach. He aspired to join the United States Marine Corps because, he said, “I wanted to kill people.” In short, he was mythology brought to life. He refused to lift weights, and was famous for his regimen of never drinking, never smoking, and doing hundreds of sit-ups and push-ups every night before going to bed. “He is the epitome of strength - that thick neck, those huge sloping shoulders, those powerful but swift legs.” Walker ran for 5,259 yards over three seasons, starred on the Bulldogs track and field team, and even wrote poetry ( I wish they could see / The real person in me). Simpson’s speed,” wrote Dave Anderson of the New York Times. “ a 220-pound running back with Jim Brown’s strength and O. He was Jim Thorpe after Jim Thorpe Bo Jackson before Bo Jackson. ![]() Walker was a power runner with Olympic burst and shoulders the size of mountains. He was not merely the Heisman Trophy winner, but the greatest all-around player college football had seen in decades. Yes, Herschel Walker was a transcendent football star, the sort of iconic figure whose presence could take the USFL from here to there. Georgia running back Herschel Walker (34) is seen in action, 1982. ![]()
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